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Adjournment and trial in absence of accused

Where application for adjournment of disciplinary proceedings was made very late and was not supported by any medical evidence the chairman was right in giving it short shrift. However the disciplinar...

Legal representation: seriousness of proceedings

Where an individual is subject to two or more sets of proceedings, or phases of a proceeding, and a civil right or obligation would be determined in one of them, he could, by force of article 6 of the...

The relevance to a tribunal's order of the defendant's means

The means of a defendant to tribunal proceedings may be a relevant consideration in calculating the appropriate sanction as to the level of fines and costs. This would usually arise when a solicitor i...